Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Life is a sequence of events whether you perceive those events as good or bad is your choice, but it is in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once....… — George Wald Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Never be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe in because of outside events. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress… — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was,… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,… — John Green Copy Share Image
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People are tweeting, texting, and e-mailing - and not connecting. There are very few ways for communities to come together. It happens… — Robert Kraft Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Norland nannies teach 'emotion coaching' which enables the child to talk through difficult emotions or events, and instructs them to find different… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I don't wear any makeup at all. Unless I am doing an event, I love to wear no makeup… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image